Why doesn't my mouse scroll?

Out of the blue my mouse has stopped scrolling up and down. The only way I can go up and down on a page is to use the little up & down thingy to the right of my screen. My mouse has done this once or twice and then just started back, so I'm wondering if maybe I accidentally clicked on something that caused this to happen. I'm lazy and don't want to be bothered with the up and down thingy to the right of my screen. Help!!! What can I do to make my mouse work again.

Published in London 1744 Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book contained the well known nursery rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock. Ewe are fully aware that this involves the vertical scrolling of a mouse up and then down a clock.

As ewe are also aware that this would happen at 1 'o' clock twice a day. lets face it, the mouse is well and truly fed up and has invited those ertswhile little beings known as Mousey-Scrolly-Fairies to spread a little mousey-magicky-scrolly-dust and thus enable it to be free from going up and down for a while.

Do not fret. This will pass. Mousey-magicky-scrolly-dust is at best just a temporary measure and normal service should be resumed fairly soon.

If this fails there is chant that can be recited but it involves standing in a field with one leg in a bucket and the other rammed up a sleeping cows backside....one must also wear a handkerchief atop your head and have three snails stuck vertically on the nape of your neck.

The chant goes thus:Oh Arse of Cow and Bucket LegWith kerchief adorn and snails upon neckI release my mouse from woe and ills allSo that I may enjoy the vertical scroll

Cite this three times whilst turning and ending with a cartwheeling pirouette and all should be fine.

...And its claws are as big as cups, and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps! And Mrs Doyle was telling me it's got magnets on its tail, so if you're made out of metal it can attach itself to you! And instead of a mouth it's got four arses!

Published in London 1744 Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book contained the well known nursery rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock. Ewe are fully aware that this involves the vertical scrolling of a mouse up and then down a clock.

As ewe are also aware that this would happen at 1 'o' clock twice a day. lets face it, the mouse is well and truly fed up and has invited those ertswhile little beings known as Mousey-Scrolly-Fairies to spread a little mousey-magicky-scrolly-dust and thus enable it to be free from going up and down for a while.

Do not fret. This will pass. Mousey-magicky-scrolly-dust is at best just a temporary measure and normal service should be resumed fairly soon.

If this fails there is chant that can be recited but it involves standing in a field with one leg in a bucket and the other rammed up a sleeping cows backside....one must also wear a handkerchief atop your head and have three snails stuck vertically on the nape of your neck.

The chant goes thus:Oh Arse of Cow and Bucket LegWith kerchief adorn and snails upon neckI release my mouse from woe and ills allSo that I may enjoy the vertical scroll

Cite this three times whilst turning and ending with a cartwheeling pirouette and all should be fine.

Glad I could help

Thank you Neil. I tried your fail safe method, but unfortunately the only thing it accomplished was loud laughter from my neighbors.